The time is the late 1800s and the Alaska gold rush is in full swing. Seeking better prospects and a spot of adventure, Duncan MacLeod, member of an age-old race of immortals, sets out for the Alaskan Territory with friends and fellow Immortals Hugh Fitzcairn and Danny O'Donal. But hardship awaits them on the snow-covered trails north as raging blizzards turn their quest into a nightmare. Starving, freezing, and trapped in a frozen hell, the Immortals soon learn that indifferent Nature can also kill them--again, and again, and again.